That is for sure moving. Well done by both Auburn and Leicester.

Awful clickbait for whoever wrote this though.

1) This is what “America” is really about? That is so dumb and generic. America is a lot of things. What Colin Kapernick is doing happens to be extremely American as well. (Not that I give a fuck about some back up QB taking a knee during a song. That is his right as an American).

2) Your comment about who is the “biggest loss to society” drips with ignorance and racism. Who the fuck are you to say who is a bigger loss to society? Michael Brown was a CHILD. We have no idea what sort of man he was going to grow up to be. He stole some cigarillos! Big deal. Kids do stupid shit. He still had family and friends and a whole life ahead of him. It is a HUGE loss to society when a child is gunned down.

Officer Tarentino by all accounts sounds like an amazing human being with a great family. We can all agree that this is a HUGE loss to society. Gut wrenching really.

To evaluate his death as being a bigger loss on society than the murder of an unarmed black child is disgusting and ignorant. Murder has a disastrous, rippling, effect on society.

I’m not the resident expert on Black Lives Matter, but I think your “bigger loss for society” comment right there pretty much sums up that entire movement.

sorry to say, but supporting Colin Kaepernick is supporting liberty…
PLEASE don’t attack people or think less of people who don’t stand for a country’s anthem. A country is just a place. One of 195 other countries in the world. All of which have both good and bad things about them. Some worse than others. The best countries have a government where the people are free to support or NOT SUPPORT what they choose, so long as it is within the reasonable requirements of the law. And this country (as most countries) is not perfect. We were born on the near extermination of an entire people group, we were furthered on the backs of inhumane slavery, and we are increasingly a country of people who reject and deny the very existence of the God who created us, the creator who should have our TRUE allegiance. The economic abundance we enjoy today is largely derived from the favorable economic construct that was established by our forefathers. So really, one of the few noble and pure things we can claim as a nation is that we DON’T crucify people for their beliefs and what they support so long as it is lawful. THAT is one of the FEW things that make this nation and this government great. Don’t take that away from us. Support liberty.

I understand that our citizens (and those of most countries) are indoctrinated from a very young age to have pride in their country. But, I don’t think that (especially as Christians) we are under any obligation to show pride or allegiance to any earthy government. (I make my boast in Christ alone) And I know most government supporters will claim that we should be standing to support those who have died for our freedoms, In that line of thinking, then soldiers from Palestine are to be honored by their citizens for fighting to give them a country of their own and to keep their boarders firm. That sort of consideration for war and soldiers would then need to universally apply to all soldiers regardless of birth country. When we fought against Britain in the Revolutionary war, their citizens supported their soldiers believing that they were protecting and furthering the best interests of their nation. For us to publicly pledge allegiance in a public display of support for war and the soldiering profession we are diminishing the sacrifice of lives made by those in other nations all throughout the world. Jesus has brought the gospel to all nations to people of every color, sect and nationality with no partiality. I therefore submit that the lives lost at the end or our soldiers’ weapons are no less valuable than those who lost their lives protecting our boarders and freedoms. I can not by scripture support any other stance.

And as Christians we are told to love our enemies and to turn the other cheek. As a christian how can we say we are doing that if our profession is to shoot people or we are in agreement with a government who perpetually makes war upon other nations ? In the early church, soldiers were only allowed to become part of the church if they made an oath not to kill anyone in the course of their profession. I understand that America has partaken in wars with a noble cause, championing freedom and bearing the banner of democracy, But often the wars we fight have economic motivations and they allow us to have favorable trade relations and avenues of exploiting resources from other nations, which is why we deign to champion certain causes around the world at all.

In addition, we have a very well hidden (in plain sight) corruption within our government that allows for money to dictate the course of our legislation that should be government for the people by the people, but so often ends up being government for corporations by corporations. Our government has sold our health and well being to the highest bidder and at every turn blocked the efforts of concerned citizens to impact meaningful change because it will cut into the profits of major corporate interests. Our religious freedoms and parental rights are being undermined and diminished more and more every year; Our government (that at one time stood for freedom) has increasingly become a socialist/fascist leaning government which believes government should dictate what God has granted us the authority to control. (namely the rearing of our children and the autonomy over what medicines we choose to use) As a christian, I have an obligation to only bow the knee to one authority, which is God. God grants certain authority to Governments, which I am obligated to be submitted to because I bend the knee to God, but I am under no obligation to offer anything to the government in any sphere of authority that God has not granted them jurisdiction and that includes pledging my unwavering allegiance which I only grant to God. And this should be the stance of ALL true believers. Shalom